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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Believe me, there’s nothing that can match the turnaround experience in teaching or seasoning a young manager. Thanks John, I have a client who are not exactly in a turn-around situation – at least they don’t think so – but they do need make a load of substantive changes. About John. December 13, 2011 at 3:50 am.

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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The advice proved excellent, and for the rest of my days in the corner office I was joined at the hip with an outstanding finance executive who is now the CFO of Lindt & Sprüngli , the world’s leading chocolatier. By the time an executive rises to the top, he/she will have spent several years within the organization. April 2011.

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires. Innovations.

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If You Want to Be Happy at Work, Have a Life Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

With more of us wanting and expecting our jobs to provide not just a paycheck but also human needs like learning, community, and a sense of purpose, we wanted to know what specifically makes people happy at work. Working at an organization with a clear sense of purpose? Is it fair pay and benefits? Having a great boss?

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Reinventing the Chief Marketing Officer: An Interview with Unilever CMO Keith Weed

Harvard Business Review

In this edited interview, Weed describes a new breed of marketing organization, and the CMO’s increasingly strategic role. So the role of marketing as I see it is identifying those deeper human needs and providing solutions. The New Marketing Organization. How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together.